The following Chinese government policy encourages accelerated adoption of AI across virtually every industry and segment of society in China from 2025 to 2035. It advocates for research and innovation in various AI paths and seeks to expand and improve the supply of data, compute, and talent for AI development. In particular, the policy emphasizes the value of a flourishing open-source AI ecosystem.
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Opinions of the State Council on Deepening the Implementation of the “Artificial Intelligence+” Initiative
State Council [2025] Document No. 11
To the people’s governments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and province-level municipalities, and all ministries and commissions of the State Council and their respective agencies:
The following opinions are hereby put forward in order to deeply implement the “Artificial intelligence+” (AI+) initiative, promote the broad and deep integration of AI across all industries and areas of the economy and society, reshape humanity’s paradigms of production and living, drive revolutionary leaps for productive forces (生产力) and profound transformations in the relations of production, and accelerate the formation of a new pattern of smart economy and smart society characterized by human-computer coordination, cross-sector integration, and co-creation and sharing.
I. Overall Requirements
Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully and accurately implementing the new concept of development (新发展理念), adhering to people-centered development thinking, and fully exploiting China’s advantages of abundant data resources, a complete industrial system, and extensive application scenarios, we will strengthen forward-looking planning, systematic deployment, sector-specific policy implementation, openness and sharing, and security and controllability. Focusing on the key fields of science and technology (S&T), industry, consumption, people’s livelihoods (民生), governance, and global cooperation, we will thoroughly implement the “AI+” initiative. This will bring forth an array of new infrastructure, new technological systems, new industrial ecosystems, and new job openings, and accelerate the incubation of new quality productive forces (新质生产力), enabling all people to share in the benefits of AI development, and better serving the building of Chinese-style modernization.
By 2027, we will take the lead in achieving broad and deep integration of AI with six key fields, the penetration rate of new generation smart terminal devices (智能终端) and intelligent agents (智能体) will exceed 70%, the core industries of the intelligent economy will be growing rapidly, the role of AI in public governance will be significantly enhanced, and the open cooperation system for AI will have been continuously improved. By 2030, China’s AI will be comprehensively empowering high-quality development, the adoption rate of new generation smart terminal devices and intelligent agents will exceed 90%, and the intelligent economy will have become a major growth pole in China’s economic development, promoting technological inclusion and the sharing of achievements. By 2035, China will have fully entered the new intelligent economy and smart society development stage, providing strong support for basically realizing socialist modernization.
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